Right to vote

October 11, 2012

In reference to "Voting rights — and wrongs" (Editorial, October 10); both sides absolutely do not have "valid concerns" in the photo identification battle. What is wrong with political dialogue today is how news organizations refuse to acknowledge, and report, when people sometimes do make totally invalid arguments. The Tribune must know that there is absolutely no local, state or federal evidence of wide-spread voter impersonation in the U.S. This is not a problem in this country by any measure. And obviously many Republicans agree, since they do not seem to think it is an issue during Republican primary elections.

And when did the Tribune begin endorsing the use of taxpayer money to pay politicians to enact and enforce laws to close an avenue to such behavior…before it happens? This is clearly not a conservative position, because it is going to take a ton of tax dollars to pass laws to prevent people from doing things that they currently do not do.

Lastly, the Tribune attempts to compare accessing email, and ATMs to voting. I suggest the Tribune take a look at the Constitution. I don’t think they will find any references to email or ATMs.